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Looking For The Top 10 Diets?
By B.J. Gordey

Want to know what the Top 10 Diets are? So did we; so we
decided to find out what the most searched for diets were on
Google - the number one search engine. And here are the top 10
diets, starting with number 10:

10) Ornish Diet - The Ornish diet was developed by Dr. Dean
Ornish, as a low fat diet for vegetarians. His plan was to
create a diet to help avoid clogged arteries rather than later
having to deal with them. His credo is this is your life you
should own it and learn to manage your diet and day to day
stress.

9) Zone Diet - The Zone diet which was created by Dr. Barry
Sears, is a reduced calorie diet, and has one simple premise -
use food as fuel. Eating the proper ratio of low carbohydrates,
dietary fat, and lean protein you can burn excess body fat and
keep it off permanently.

8) Okinawa Diet - First published in 2001, the Okinawa Diet is
an outline of healthy habits based on the lifestyle and diet of
the Okinawans who have the highest rate of centenarians (40 per
100,000) on earth. With lots of vegetables and complex
carbohydrates this diet gets a great deal of its protein from
tofu.

7) Genotype Diet - Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo, author of Eat Right 4
Your Type, has done it again, and now identifies six distinct
genetic body types. Whether you are a Nomad, Warrior, Explorer,
Teacher, Gatherer, or a Hunter, Dr. D’Adamo offers a customized
program that compliments your genetic makeup.

6) DASH Diet - was created by the NIH (National Institute of
Health) to lower cholesterol and blood pressure without benefit
of medication. This diet has lots of fruits and vegetables, with
low fat and/or nonfat dairy, beans, fish and poultry, grains,
nuts and lean meats. This diet has 28 days of meal plans along
with the recipes.

5) Diabetic Diet - Dr. Richard K. Bernstein brings a new
low-carb diet plan that has enabled his patients to control
their disease by stabilizing their blood sugar without the usual
highs and lows and with fewer drugs.

4) Weight Watchers Diet - We first heard of Weight Watchers in
the early to mid 60's. And some 97% of Weight Watcher’s members
say they not only like the plan they would recommend the diet to
a friend. There are no forbidden foods or required prepackaged
food to purchase. With several eating plans, you have lots of
choices on Weight Watchers.

3) South Beach Diet - This diet was created by Dr. Arthur
Agatston, a cardiologist, for his patients to use to improve
insulin and cholesterol and levels. But to his surprise, not
only did this low-fat and low-carbohydrate diet improve their
health, it also caused his patients to drop a lot of weight.

2) Mediterranean Diet - For 50 years, doctors have observed
that people of the Mediterranean area were much less likely to
suffer heart disease or strokes. They attribute the region's
health to a diet low in saturated-fat with plenty of whole
grains. This reduced fat diet, with lots of complex
carbohydrates is one of the easiest to follow.

1) Atkins Diet - Dr. Robert Atkins, whose diet books have been
on the bestseller lists for years, is the author of "The Atkins
Diet". Dr. Atkins advocates a high protein weight loss diet
which emphasizes the benefits of protein and the dangers of
carbohydrates. Still number one, after all these years.

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How To Choose Healthy Foods By Consumer Wellness Founder, Mike
Adams
By Kevin Gianni

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's The Healthiest
Year of Your Life Program which can be found at
http://www.thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com. In this excerpt,
Mike Adams shares his personal health transformation and an
important look at shopping for and choosing healthy foods.

The Healthiest Year of Your Life Excerpt with Mike Adams,
founder of the Consumer Wellness Center and on-line retailer,
Better Life Goods. An author and speaker, Mike’s mission is to
spread the message of natural nutrition and healing. 

Kevin: Here's what scares me a little bit here and let's start
talking about dairy, because it's a big argument, or just even
like people are almost dogmatically either believe dairy is what
they need to eat, or they dogmatically believe that it's not
something that you should eat at all. What are some other things
that we should really be cautious about when dealing with milk
and cheese and things like that?

Mike: Well, the first thing we should be cautious about is what
you hinted at. There’s sort of a psychological momentum. This is
a well-known phenomenon in human psychology, which is that tend
to find reasons to justify own behavior. So if we are drinking
milk right now and we're enjoying it, we’ll find reasons to
support that and if we’re not drinking milk and just avoiding
all dairy products entirely, we tend to find reasons to support
that and we tend to be dogmatic about that, too. So there are
very few people in the center, but the first point is take a
very close look at your own psychology and ask why am I
supporting this, or not supporting it. What's behind my
decisions?  In other words, most people drinking milk should ask
themselves why am I drinking milk. Why do we take the liquid
from another species that is infant formula? Let's be clear
about this. Milk is infant formula. Why are we taking that and
processing it? We're homogenizing the milk fat. Why are we
killing it? We’re pasteurizing it to kill it, so that it can be
put in the stores and then consumed by humans, adult humans.

In other words, why are we, as adult human beings, drinking
infant formula for a furry, bovine species? That's the real
question. You can honestly ask yourself that question and start
investigating it and then you can make some progress into this
issue, but if you have resistance to that very idea, because
you're enjoying your milk with your cereal in the morning, then
you're not ready to go down that path yet.

At some point, hopefully you'll be ready and you can check it
out. You can start looking at the issue. Now, here's the
conclusion that I've come to. I don't do any dairy at all
anymore, other than fermented raw dairy. I only do that
occasionally, but my conclusion is that processed milk is very
dangerous for human health. I think the epidemiological studies
have really shown that. There’s a book called The China Study
that’s a good one to look at it that talks about that.

Secondly, raw milk that fresh, farm milk, right out of the cow,
once it’s fermented so that the proteins are more digestible and
it’s a living food that can be very beneficial to human health.
So you see, you can’t just say milk is this, or milk is bad. You
have to look at different profiles of milk. There’s living milk
and then there’s dead milk. Dead milk, dead, processed milk to
me is just like dead, processed snack food. It’s very dangerous
to your health, but living milk is like eating sprouts in a way.
It’s alive. It’s got friendly flora in there and it’s more
digestible in that way. Those are the conclusions that I came
to, but I always invite others to draw their own conclusions. I
drank milk most of my life, but I certainly don't touch it now
unless it’s fermented and raw and fresh milk. So how’s that,
Kevin?

Kevin:  It sounds great. When it comes to dogmatism is just
questioning the best way to get through to the answers, or just
investigating more, because I see it across the board. I see it
from people who eat steak and eggs for breakfast, to people who
eat nothing but 100% raw food even to the point where they only
eat one specific food at a time and they don’t eat anything
else. To me it seems that each side is almost too stiff.

Mike: I think the main thing that I encourage people to do is
to be skeptical consumers and always question their own beliefs.
So we need to have this philosophical flexibility.  Otherwise,
we too become stuck in our own ways and we become dogmatic and
that drives everybody else nuts. No one likes a vegan that
marches around insisting that everyone else has to be vegan just
like them.

So I always encourage people to take their own journey
discovering things on their own and in the meantime I'm happy to
hear some of what I discovered. It doesn’t mean that it
necessarily is going to apply to you. The other thing, Kevin, is
that we’ve got to be sensitive to what our bodies are telling
us. If we are sensitive, then we can experiment with these
dietary changes. We can try milk for 30 days, or try no milk for
30 days and see which one feels better. In fact, I used to do
something. I would put this on the website and challenge people
to a 30 day dairy free diet. Just challenge them. You're going
to live many, many decades. Take 30 days and go without milk and
see what happens. Find out if it's better, or worse and people
would write me after the 30 days and say, “Wow. My sinuses
cleared up. My constipation went away.  My joints feel better. I
have more energy. My acne disappeared.” It’s just one benefit
after another and my answer back to them would be, “That’s
great. Now that you discovered that, which way do you want to
live the rest of your life?” It’s pretty simple at that point
for those people. They chose to live without milk. There might
be others out there who are immune to the negative effects of
milk for some reason, so maybe they have no benefit and that’s
fine, too.

The important thing is to listen to your body and be aware of
what kinds of effects you are getting. It’s that feedback
mechanism. If you have a health goal of where you want to get
to, how do you know if you're getting there? You know by paying
attention to what your body is telling you and then you can just
start experimenting with your diet, or with nutritional
supplements, or super foods, or exercise, or sunlight, or
meditation, yoga, Pilates. You name it. You can put all these
things in and find out what’s working for me and that becomes
the basis for personal growth.

Kevin:  I think you've done a good job at providing information
to people who don't necessarily have the time, or have not been
able to justify the time to being able to really learn about
their health and you have a few different resources. I just want
to talk about them now, The Herb Reference Resource. Just why
don’t you run down a few of those where people can go? The Drug
Side Effects Resource, as well that you’re putting together.
Let’s just run down those and just tell everyone what they can
see when they go to each one of those.

Mike: Oh, yeah. Well, there is a lot of information out there,
but we’ve tried to condense it as much as possible.
Herbreference.com gives you look at all the benefits of various
herbs, all the health benefits and this is taken from dozens of
different books. I’ve studied herbs. There are probably 10,000
scientific studies in all behind that information.
Newstarget.com is the main website where we put up daily news
about super food nutrients and how to prevent and reverse and
even cure degenerative diseases. We also talk about the dangers
of pharmaceuticals and the dangers of Western medicine and
actually, if you go to newstarget.com it will actually be
naturalnews.com. That’s what we’re shifting to. That’s our
long-term URL, naturalnews.com. You can find a lot of resources
there. So I just encourage people to go there, register for the
free e-mail newsletter and they'll be kept informed of what
we're working on and I’ve approached this, by the way, Kevin, I
want to mention I approach this from kind of a nonprofit
standpoint.

I made my fortune in the software industry. I started a
software company in 1993 and it earns millions of dollars a
year. I took that money and the benefits from that and I put it
into creating newstarget.com several years ago and so I do this
without taking any money from supplement companies. I don't sell
vitamins. I don't sell supplements, or herbs, or are herbs, or
anything like that. I don't ask for money from these companies
to write about their products. So that means I approach this
from a really independent viewpoint and when I make a
recommendation on a product out there that I really like, like
Ron Teeguarden’s Dragon Herbs, you know I’m making that
recommendation with 100% objectivity. It's an honest,
independent, genuine recommendation and that's why people like
the website, because they know they can trust it. They may not
always agree with everything I say and that's fine, but they
know I’m not taking a bribe to push some junk product out there.
I wouldn’t do that just for my reputation. I wouldn’t even think
about pushing a junk product out there.

Kevin:  We’re shifting gears into supplements now. How do you
know? There are hundreds out there and I know how easy it is to
make a supplements lie. What kind of knowledge can you impart to
everyone to explain the whole process and what it takes to make
something really good?

Mike: Okay. I'm going to reveal a secret here and this is one
of my little industry secrets of how I know who to trust and who
to recommend. First off, you’ve got to look at the ingredients,
but that's obvious. You look at what goes into the supplement. A
lot of supplements are junk. The form of vitamin B12 they use,
for example, is cyanocobalamin, which is a cyanide molecule
combined with a cobalamin.

Kevin:  Okay.

Mike: Not a good thing. So I can look at a label and see what
level of quality they have for that supplement. The other is the
source. If you’re looking at herbs, like Chinese herbs in
particular, you don't want them to be sourced from China
probably, because I've been to China. I speak Chinese and I know
what goes on over there and it’s some scary stuff.

Kevin:  Really? With mercury and lead right? That's two of the
big issues.

Mike: Not only that, but I've even seen cases where, for
example, black sesame seeds were not really roasted sesame
seeds. They were just white sesame seeds that were coated with
black ink. The stuff I’ve seen, you would not believe it.

The third thing is, this is a secret part. This is why I go to
trade shows, because I can meet the person and when I see that
person I'm assessing their health. That is, the founder of the
company, the CEO. Are they healthy? Are they vibrant? Are their
eyes clear? What is their level of health and if they’re not
healthy, I don't recommend their product.  I'm looking for
really healthy people with fantastic ingredients.

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Herbs, Tinctures, Antibiotics And Probiotics, By Health Expert
Jon Barron
By Kevin Gianni

This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's The Healthiest
Year of Your Life, which can be found at
http://thehealthiestyearofyour life. com. In this excerpt, Jon
Barron shares on herbs, tinctures, antibiotics and probiotics.

The Healthiest Year of Your Life with Jon Barron, creator of
Base Line Nutrition and author of Lessons from the Miracle
Doctors. 

Jon: Now, I mentioned Echinacea, it’s a great one. A lot of
people are not aware, but good herbalists can identify 100 or
1000 or 1500 herbs by taste or smell. They can tell you how
strong they are.  It’s like, there’s no machine yet that can
match the pallet of a wine expert. No machine can match the
taste and smell of a good herbalist.  I can do maybe 100, 200
herbs. I’m not even close to 1000 or 1500.  Echinacea though is
a simple one. Every herb has what’s called a signature
characteristic. If you have two bags of peppermint tea and you
brewed pots up and one of them tasted like dish water and the
other had a really nice strong, crisp peppermint taste, anyone
would go, oh that’s good peppermint and that stuff stinks. And
they would be absolutely right. The signature characteristic of
peppermint is the peppermint taste. The signature characteristic
of Echinacea is that it numbs and tingles the mouth. The more it
doesn’t, the stronger it is.  You can run tests on the active
ingredients they know and it will verify that they are far
stronger than the ones that numb and tingle stronger. I’ve gone
to health food stores and bought 30 brands of Echinacea, tested
them and actually when I did this 10 years ago I found only one
that had any activity at all. 29 of them, the only Echinacea of
value was the word that was on the label. There was nothing
inside.

Kevin:  Really.

Jon: Yeah, they could have been using Echinacea but it was of
such low grade that it had no impact.

Kevin:  So, let me get this straight again. It numbs.

Jon: And tingles the mouth. You take Echinacea tincture and you
squirt it in your mouth, two droppers. Take two droppers and
swish it around in your mouth for about 15 seconds and swallow
it and you should find your mouth numbing and tingling and
actually saliva should be flowing and if it’s really strong, it
will actually start to make you gag in your throat, because your
throat starts to catch. The more it doesn’t, the stronger that
Echinacea is. The one thing we could do very easy is if we took
the same stuff and we would brew it the two ways and one of them
is if we used good quality Echinacea and the first one would
numb and tingle your mouth and would blow people away. In fact,
I actually use to walk around with three bottles. One that I
bought at the store, a commercial Echinacea that had virtually
no activity but was a very popular brand, to the one we created
using a higher quality herb which is about three or four times
stronger than that and then that same herb brewed the new way
with the new technique that we had and we’ve since measured it
and it’s a 100% stronger.

Kevin:  Wow.

Jon: Yeah and actually what would happen is I did it once in a
large scale demo. I will never do it again because people
started gagging all over. Their throat started seizing up it was
so strong. So we had a few go, ugh, ugh, ugh – several hundred
of them.

Kevin:  So I imagine that the value in terms of price is – I
mean, you go to get these tinctures, they’re fairly expensive
regardless, so it would make sense if it is any extra money, is
it extra money to get --

Jon: You know actually, it isn’t extra money because you
actually get more bioactive ingredients out. You’re actually
making stronger stuff. You actually use less of the good herb
than you would otherwise. Actually, the process lowers the cost
so what you are doing and what you’re paying for is still the
quality of the herb but the process actually makes the cost a
little less for us because we get more high quality tincture out
of a slightly less herb, because it does so much better. Also,
one of the things I mentioned, you have water and alcohol as the
solvents making the tincture. That still leaves behind anything
that is oil soluble and we found a way that we can use that
process to also pull out the oil soluble bio-chemicals.

Kevin:  Oh, that’s cool.

Jon: Yeah, which makes it even stronger, but you use good
quality herbs, good quality Echinacea – we have one formula, an
antipathigen formula. It’s not even a tincture actually. It’s a
pressing of garlic and horse radish and habanera and things like
that and it’s got liquid zinc in it, grapefruit extract, olive
leaf extract.

Kevin:  Wow.

Jon: It’s an antipathigen formula that was so strong we
actually were contacted by people in the government who wanted
us to send them some 100 bottles and we did. It was tested for
bird flu, Ebola, small pox, anthrax. It went to the Department
of Defense, U.S. Army, Walter Reid Medical Hospital and an
agency that I’m not suppose to mention but they’re all initialed
and we were told that it passed all their tests.

Kevin:  Are you serious?

Jon: And they sent it out. We were told it was going to an
outside lab for verification and we wouldn’t hear again unless
it failed the test. That’s the last we heard so I don’t know.

Kevin:  Wow.

Jon: But we know it works and for colds and flus like that.
That’s actually a topic worth discussing on why antibiotics and
antiviral don’t work and why natural substances do.

Kevin:  Yeah. That’s very important.

Jon: The problem is that when you take an antibiotic and an
antiviral, you’re actually breading super bugs. It’s very
simple.  When you take an antibiotic, anything that survives it,
by definition is one that has a resistance to that antibiotic or
antiviral.

Kevin:  Sure.

Jon: So what you’ve left now is a pool of those that have a
resistance. They breathe, they duplicate and you’re actually
sort of breeding bacteria and viruses that are immune to the
antibiotics and there it turns out they have the ability to pass
that immunity onto other species, they’ve found. So if you get
immunity going like in a staff, the next thing you know, all
bacteria has that resistance. That’s why antibiotics are a
problem; well, one reason. The other is they are one
dimensional. They kill bacteria in one way.  They either, like
some, will break the cell wall open. Others will work and stop
the energy production, the mitochondria of the cells, but it’s
one thing that that antibiotic does so it makes it very easy for
bacteria to build a resistance.  There are now bacteria, for
example, that have protection on the cellular wall against the
antibiotics.  So when it’s a one dimensional pack, it makes it
makes it very easy for these very primal structures, which
reproduce rapidly in a matter of weeks, viruses in just a few
weeks, bacteria in 12 months to or six months to maybe a year
and a half can start to develop a resistance and passed around.

Even natural substances -- take garlic -- we use garlic in
ours. We use 30 cloves crushed so you have the juice of 30
cloves in one bottle and it smells it, but garlic has over a
hundred substances in it that are known to be antibiotic,
antibiotics. So it’s not just a hundred times more effective.
You now go into gaming theory because you get them in
combination. In different ways you start to actually get
hundreds of thousands of combinations of these things that
present a resistance to these viruses and bacteria. You combine
a few other ingredients and you actually have a combination that
starts to go into, you know the rival the number of stars in the
universe because it goes up expediential, which is why that even
though things like garlic have been around since the dawn of
man, they still work against bacteria.  Garlic at one time was
used against anthrax. Those poor men, the poor farmer's
protection for anthrax on their animals and it worked. In groups
though. There were farmers feeding their animals in Korea kimchi
which is high in garlic and it was stopping bird flu. It works
and it’s impossible for bacteria and viruses to build a
resistance, because they’re so complicated.

Kevin:  Now in terms --

Jon: That’s something to keep in mind the next pandemic that
comes around.

Kevin:  Sure. Now in terms of the good bacteria, the good flora
in your stomach, will garlic will wipe that out, as well.

Jon: Garlic actually is pretty benign. There’s sort of a
regression. There are certain things you don’t want to do. One
for example, is goldenseal.

Kevin:  Yeah.

Jon: Is one that kills bacteria, great for limited use, but
know if you use it regularly it will kill your good bacteria.

Kevin:  Got you.

Jon: Coidal silver is another one. It tends not to be kind to
intestinal bacteria. So if you use it on a daily basis, that’s a
problem. My recommendation for coidal silver is use it for
external use and use it internally only for extreme situations.

Kevin:  Sure. Great. That’s good information because I’ve
always wondered that if it’s an antibiotic, wouldn’t it kill the
bacteria. So that’s good.

Jon: Yeah, it depends. It does. Some are more benign than
others. Garlic though is one that’s actually quite benign to the
beneficial bacteria.

Kevin:  And if you were taking something like goldenseal or
something like that, would you recommend taking a probiotic with
it or it’s not even worth it.

Jon: Well, I recommend – yeah if you’re using it daily, you use
your probiotic.  Otherwise, after any round of antibiotics,
anything you’re using that’ s killing bacteria, you want to use
probiotics again.

Kevin:  Yeah. Why don’t you just talk about the base line of
health programs and just some of the things that you offer under
that huge umbrella of just incredible information and products?

Jon: Yeah. If I saw something that somebody else was doing
well, I wouldn’t duplicate it. But we created those products
that I thought weren’t being done well enough or weren’t easily
available.  Where people weren’t using consistently high enough
quality herbs or whatever, so we offered detox formulas, supper
food formulas, enzymes and a couple of formulas that are worth
noting is we make what is we’ve been told by people who’ve
tested it is the strongest probiotic enzyme formula, which we
haven’t talked about yet, but in one of the more important
formulas you could use is a high proteases formula that you take
without food to go into the blood stream.

Kevin:  Okay.

Jon: Where there it will do things such as kill bacteria and
viruses in the body because they all have protein coverings, if
you will, that could be broken down. It also breaks up clots in
the blood, repairs it, eats up scar tissue. They’re great
things. Another formula we have uses certain combinations of
herbs that slow down the digestion, the simulation of high
glycemic, carbohydrates, so it stops insulin spikes.

Kevin:  Got you. Well, Jon, you’ve given us a ton of
information and I think that anyone whose listening to this call
can take something from it and that’s extreme value so thank you
so much for doing that.

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